Well folks, our commie dominated legislature has passed two similar gun licensing bills and sent them to Davis. Our only hope now is that he sticks to his original word of vetoing any new gun legislation until he sees how all the 1999 laws are working. Yea, that will really cut down on crime. Every crime committed with a gun is now against the law anyway, but I guess we need more laws. The only way I would accept this one is with "shall issue" CCW. The PRK is going to make us jump through the same hoops as you would to get a CCW, but with no prize for all your trouble.

Davis is such a character.
A) Crime goes down.
"Gun control is effective in reducing crime, we will continue to legislate to increase safety for the people of California."
B) Crime goes up.
"The 1999 gun control laws were not effective enough, stricter regulation of firearms is needed to increase safety for the people of California."
Here's one CA resident that doesn't give a damn what is passed, they will do as they wish, I will do as I wish.
radioman

One bill originated in the assembly, the other in the senate. Both have been passed and sent to the other and are currently in commitee. The assembly bill passed by a very close margin. 41 - 36. Niether has been sent to Davis. It is almost a certainty that one of these will be signed into law. If so look for a run on handgun sales ( as much as one gun a month will allow ) and after that almost NO sales.

From an American’s First Freedom article: [i]“Strap an electric collar onto a dog. Shock him when he doesn’t obey, then shock him again when he does obey. If you teach him that the rules are ever-changing and that punishment comes without cause, you’ll get one of two outcomes: Either he’ll surrender to punishment as the inescapable outcome, with downturned head and withers trembling – or he’ll rebel against that authority, hackles raises and snarling and disobey every rule.”[/i]
The state of California has been for more than ten years constantly changing the rules obviously in outright violation of the Constitution’s Bill of Right’s Second Amendment which clearly prohibits States from infringing on the right of the people to keep and bear arms. Those rights in the US Constitution are reserved for the federal government; those not enunciated are free for the states to populate. If the state of California passed a law that suddenly allowed the US Army to quarter it’s troops in your home this would be declared un-Constitutional and overthrown by the US Supreme Court. Yet in California handguns are banned because they are too small, not expensive enough, or have their magazine in the politically incorrect position. Purchases of handguns are rationed to one per month. Rifles are banned by looks, use of detachable magazines, pistol grips, muzzle devices and a dozen other bizarre and seemingly random characteristics. Even toy guns are now regulated by color. The US Supreme Court will step in and overturn these Constitutional violations sooner or later, I just hope it occurs before firearms owners have their forearms tattooed.

Removing firearms using the [i]“death by a hundred cuts method”[/i] will allow the central federal government to seize unlimited power. For a people without the means to protect themselves both from the government and from each other will have to seek protection from those with the means. Unarmed people are always the victims. It’s has happened time and time in this world where a powerful government as killed off some portion of it’s unarmed population. Rather than a power that is derived from the consent of the governed we will have to trust that the absolute power given to the government’s Administrative branch will not corrupt absolutely. I am not a very trusting person and refuse to surrender my responsibilities for any reason, let alone an un-Constitutional law to an out-of-control State government.
Words mean something and despite the best efforts of some the meaning of the words [b]“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed”[/b] has not changed. These old words still mean that we, as law-abiding citizens, have a God given right and responsibility to own firearms – firearms with detachable magazines, pistol grips, bayonet lugs and flash suppressors.
[rant]I am one dog who is rebelling against the authority and will continue to snarl and keep my hackle raised. My spirit will not be soon broken.[/rant]